Countdown time for School/After School Activity/Career Showing 0 Minutes

Hi MarioLS0​ 

I merged your post with the bug report.

Hi everyone

I'm having a minor UI issue where the bottom hover banner/tooltip for career is stuck showing "Starts in: 0 minutes". Even though the main career panel correctly reflects that the next shift isn't for another 3 hours. The UI does successfully update to "Time for work!" when the shift actually begins, but it reverts right back to being stuck at "0 minutes" during regular off-hours. This is strictly a visual/UI bug and it does not affect my actual gameplay; Sims still attend work or school perfectly fine on schedule and return without issue.

I already tried:

• Clean Folder Test: Tested on a completely fresh, vanilla game by generating a brand-new "The Sims 4" folder (pics taken from it).
• Game Repair: Already ran the "Repair" option through the game launcher, but the issue persists.

System Specifications

• Hardware: MacBook Pro 14" (M1)
• OS Version: macOS Tahoe 26.5.1

All sims now just says 0min until work or school ect when technically they have like 4 hours until so they keep missing stuff 

Had same thought process and  started a new game without mods to no avail.

I'm also experiencing this since the update June 30th, I always use it to check so it's become extremely inconvenient for me!

I am playing PS5 no mods or cheats. After the latest June 2026 update I moved house with my created sim and Liberty Lee. Liberty’s career timer was set to 0 minutes and when I moved Summer in the same thing happened. I started a new game and downloaded my created sim from my library (created before the update) and when I tried a career it had a regular timer but when I moved Liberty in the “0 minutes” bug happened. In this new save I quit their jobs and tried moving house to see if that helped however the bug is still active. On my previous save I was even locked out of changing clothes in “change a sim” while this bug was in effect but I was not locked out of changing clothes in my new save.

Yep, im having the same issue on mac, no mods no cc

2 July 2026  PC, No Mods, limited CC removed before May update
Same.  "Starts in 0 minutes" on hover not matching the Career countdown.  

same here

Same issue, PC, no mods or non marketplace cc. Local cache cleared, game repaired, and fresh save tried.